Reflecting-baker



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Domestic Oven.

No. 4,145. Patented Aug. 9, 1845.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

WILLIAM TAINTER AND HARLOW S. ORTON, O13 PORTER COUNTY, INDIANA.

REFLECTING-BAKER.

Specification of Letters Patent No. 4,145, dated August 9, 1845.

To all whom it'may concern- Be it known that we, WILLIAM TAINTER andHARLOW S. ORTON, of the county of.

Porter and State of Indiana, have invented a plan and method of usingheat by reflection in and through a polished cylinder for the purposesof baking and cooking.

For the purpose of illustrating more fully the form and plan of theapparatus for baking and cooking upon this principle, this specificationis accompanied by drawings by reference to which it will be seen that Ais the cylinder mentioned the length of which is two feet and thediameter one foot. B, is the open end of the cylinder to be presented incontact with the furnace or at such distance from it as by the degree ofheat may be necessary. C is the outer or front end of the cylinder to belightly closed by a door of concave form. A

By reference to drawing No. 2, D is-the movable or sliding gratesituated about two inches below the center of the cylinder eighteeninches in length on which the articles to be cooked are to be placed asshown in Figs. 1 and 4, D. Drawing No. 3 presents a flat iron furnaceproportioned in form and size to the cylinder above de scribed. It issixteen inches high, thirteen inches wide on the side, and four incheswide on the ends. The top part is a projection of one and a half inchover the sides and ends of the body of the furnace, two inches high withan aperture for boiling purposes, and a small pipe for draft.

The principle of reflection involved in the use of the above describedcylinder as understood by the undersigned is: The heat radiating fromthe surface of the furnace meets the inner and polished surface of thecylin- By this method is obviated the usual difficulty of not being ableto bake the entire contents of the oven without burning that partnearest the source of heat.

This baker differs from all others of which the undersigned have anyknowledge, and is distinguished from them by its being cylindrical inform and securing the most uniform and the greatest amount of heat froma given quantity of fuel.

It will be readily perceived that by a furnace of the above descriptiontwo cylinders can be used, one on either side with the same amount offuel as would be required for one, and by a furnace of square form threeor four cylinders can be used with a small addition of expense. Theamount of coal necessary for a furnace of the above dimensions for onebaking is two quarts, the expense of which will not exceed five mills.

The whole apparatus can be made of any dimensions that may be requiredand be of the same utility as the one above described. It can be used insummer as well in the open air as in a house and the cylinder can beused with the same convenience by an ordinary stove or fire place as bya furnace.

It will be perceived that by this process of reflection through apolished cylinder, heat may be conducted any convenient distance for thepurpose of cooking or warming rooms.

hat we claim, is

Constructing a reflecting baker in the form as above described-that isto say the baker of a cylindrical form having the grate or shelf uponwhich the articles are to be cooked being placed near the cent-er in themanner above described.

Valparaiso, Porter County, Indiana, July 23, A. D. 1845.

WILLIAM TAINTER. HARLOW S. ORTON.

Witnesses to the signature of Tainter;

J. HAMELL, JOHN STEIMAS.

Witnesses to the signature of Orton:

J. BIenLow, V. H. GODDARD.

